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Heavy duty secure parking storage. Increase the market appeal of your apartment or condo by providing supplementary storage that uses wasted space over a vehicle. Parking Lofts can be placed side by side or back to back, and with the adjustable height, most vehicle sizes can be accommodated. Designed to fit within a standard parking spot, and does not affect neighboring vehicles. Gain storage space where you need it most. Go to the Parking Loft Product

Lumpers & Spliters?     Lumpers sort all like items together Splitters separate out the items entirely A teacher of mine once told me that the world is made up of two kinds of people, Lumpers and Splitters. Lumpers tend to look at a set of things or ideas and want to put them together in big groups: everything bigger than a toaster here, everything smaller there. Splitters prefer to subdivide things into finely graded categories: extra small, small, medium, large, XL etc. While I’m not sure all of us are only one or the other, it is true that...

Containers are all around us, on ships, trains and trucks.  The biggest container ships can carry 19,000 containers and, at any one time, there are more than 2000 such ships at sea.  90% of everything that is purchased in North America has at some stage been in a container. Container shipping replaced more labour intensive methods in the 1970s. Then, dock workers fought back, hoping to preserve their jobs but inexpensive container shipping won out and is part of the reason goods made in Asia are so cheap and plentiful.  Today, we hardly notice these sturdy and robust warriors of...

Business success craves additional storage space and the need for instant warehousing.  Your business growth may demand additional space but expensive warehousing may not be the answer. Warehouse rents are expensive.  Especially if you need a drive-in door or a loading dock. Also expensive if you want a good location or a rodent and bug free prime location with a few services thrown in.   If you are not so fussy then cheaper rents are available but how far do you want to drive each day? Business growth can put pressure on your space needs .  Do you move to...

Weatherproof steel container cabin. A container home project to build the perfect hunting lodge or cottage.  A house built out of a container can be a home. I am not sure I want to live in a container even though some of these container homes look pretty comfy and what a beautiful spot in the woods. (Never say never.)  What I do like is the idea of using a container as an instant solution for a cabin on a wood lot.  This spring I'm starting a project to build a weatherproof steel container cabin.  A hunting lodge / cottage. This...